From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Oct 7 14:12:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from tholian.securitydynamics.com (mail.rsasecurity.com [204.167.112.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 484FD37B406 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 14:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdtihq24.securid.com by tholian.securitydynamics.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 7 Oct 2001 21:08:54 UT Received: from ebola.securitydynamics.com (ebola.securid.com [192.168.7.4]) by sdtihq24.securid.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA07244 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 17:12:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from spirit.dynas.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.securitydynamics.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA11912 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 17:12:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 20085 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2001 21:12:01 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (HELO mikko.rsa.com) (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 7 Oct 2001 21:12:01 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by mikko.rsa.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f97LBwK22862; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 14:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 14:11:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200110072111.f97LBwK22862@mikko.rsa.com> To: dsnyder@web.turner.com Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended notebook for FreeBSD Newsgroups: local.freebsd.mobile References: <25755.1000903178@thrush.ravenbrook.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In local.freebsd.mobile you write: [...] >I'm using a Sony VAIO PCG-Z505JS (Model PCG-5201) (1024x768x24) with >FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE (I will probably upgrade to 4.4-RELEASE this >weekend). The only odd thing that I've had to do is dislable USB >support in the Kernel and enable Plug-and-Play O/S in the BIOS in >order to get my PCMCIA slot to work well. Also, I don't have the >on-board soft modem working. >Everything else works very well. I was using XFree86 3.x, but it was >not accellerated for the NeoMagic chipset, so I purchased a commercial I have a PCG-505JE, wich I believe has almost the same specs, apart from a slower CPU and less memory. XFree 3.3.6 works fine if I specify Chipset "NM2200". XFree 4.1.0 also works, but needs a few tweaks (disable one or two accelaration features, but not all acceleration entirely), or X will hang after a while. $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message